Happy Birthday Baby Sis!

Happy birthday to one of my favorite people on the planet!

My little sister!

I love you always and forever! 

You are my heart and I am so blessed to have you for a sister!

Happy birthday sis!!

 

 

 Please know that you mean the world to me and I could not have chosen a better baby sister!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSIE! I LOVE YOU!!

SH Vacation 1

Hi everyone!!! I hope everyone is having an amazing summer!!!! I have been and now it is time to get caught up! But, first, thank you all for your blog posts while I vacationed - LOL! I was too lazy to blog on vacation so I read everyone else's while I hung out in the sand and surf. It seems like you all had a wonderful summer too - and are just simply not as lazy as me! HA

Well, here goes catch up from Beach vacation #1. As we do every year I went down to Stone Harbor, NJ with my family! I love it there - it is definitely our GO TO vacation spot!!!.

Here is the view from the condo!!! Nothing short of glorious!

 
Little beach view...does not hurt having a lifeguard doing his push ups in the picture either!

Here is just some our our crew...My Mom and Dad, sister and nephew!

Santa was in town!!! Christmas in July! It definitely helps keep the kids in line - LOL!  

The puzzlers...Mom and two sisters...

 

Saw a beautiful rainbow while we were in town...my iPhone did not do it justice!

Just a couple of my adorable nieces!!!! Love these girls to death!

Sunset at the beach...

Some more nieces...

And more...

Mom and sisters! This is a selfie of our morning walking/jogging crew! We got up at 6AM and walked every morning! Notice all the boys slept in everyday - HA!

We let the kids spend the day at the Wetlands. It is a wildlife conservation group to conserves the turtles and other sea creatures in the wetlands of Stone Harbor.

Little time at the beach! Just kidding! When I go to the beach with these people we spend ALL DAY EVERYDAY on the beach!

My sister and my niece...

Time to go home already! We re-connected with a family that we grew up around. The is my parents and myself and Mrs. Smith and her daughter and son-in-law. I grew up hanging out everyday with this girl!  Such fun to re-connect!

Ininin Jbjbkb                      

Week 2 - Weigh in Wednesday

Hi!  am posting this to catch up. I was on vacation last week and could not access internet to host Weight in Wednesday.

I want to make sure to post the loss up to that point for my historical record.

So, here we go!

I started on July 24, 2016 and have lost 7.8 pounds since then.

From last Wednesday to this Wednesday I have lost 3.2 pounds

I have been watching. measuring and recording everything I eat and making sure to get at least 10,000 steps a day and drink my water!

Here's to health!!! Happy rest of your week!

Won't you please come and join in with me? Simply grab the button above and link up with me next Wednesday!

Tell me more about YOU!!

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone had an awesome weekend! Mine was good.

I am back to work now after another vacation and it is sooo hard to get into the groove of work?!?!? UGH!

I started this blog about 5 years ago to document my not very exciting love life and fitness journey and I have done exactly that. I have tracked boyfriends, holidays, weight loss and weight gain and also made so many great friends!

I really love each and every one of my followers and would love to learn more about you. So, this is get to know YOU day!!! If you are reading this....PLEASE comment below with the following answers...

1. Your First Name
2. Town and State you live in
3. Favorite Movie
4. Favorite Book
5. Favorite Food
6. Favorite Drink
6. Favorite Type of Workout
7. Type of Work you Do (Even if its in the home)
8. Favorite Vacation Spot
9. Where do you want to live when you retire

Thanks for taking the time to allow me to get to know YOU better!!! I can not wait to read everyone's answers!  HAPPY MONDAY!!!

Stone Harbor Trip 2-Day 1

Hi everyone! I am so happy to let you know that I am officially on vacation at the beach! I drove late last night to get here and this was the scene when I arrived at 3 AM in Stone Harbor, New Jersey.  My family has been coming here since we were little kids… This is by far my favorite place on the planet! 

 This is the first daylight picture! I took this when I got up around 8 AM .  Ahhhh...

  My brother and his family will be up tomorrow. Today on the beach it was just me. I took my chair down and my towel to lay on my stomach. I have my own little area set up for about two hours and then this family came along. Someone almost put their chair on my leg… Way too close for comfort!

 This was my lunch! I have shrimp at the beach?

 And this was also my lunch… It was peppers and mushrooms sautéed overheat. It was so good! I even have leftovers for tomorrow's lunch! 

  I spent a lot of today reflecting on this quote… I really and truly I am so blessed today. I have A family like no other!

  Then I reflected on this… This is nuns beach. There's an order of nuns that actually live here on the beach. I'm thinking I may need to become one. What would I be missing maybe it's time… LOL! 

  I went for a little run later in the afternoon. It was a walk jog run through the streets, through a few paths and on the beach. This is a little path you can run through in a wildlife preserve. Very awesome! 

  And this is a beach at the very end of Stone Harbor.   A lot of this area is blocked off now to keep it protected. When we were little we used to be able to go collect shells here. You could  find really amazing shells after high tide back then and sharks teeth too… Not so much anymore. I looked forever and didn't find one sharks tooth tonight 

Here is the beach path...so beautiful!

 Another shot...

And another... Can you tell I love the beach?

  I ran into this little baby along the path… 

And then about 6 feet from him what his mom or dad…not sure which this is...ha!

Here is the big bad shell collection I found tonight…

I saw these flowers planted together at two different houses. Don't they look awesome? I will be doing this at my house when I buy it next year… LOL! I hope you enjoyed my little run recap as much as I enjoyed it.

 Anyone else live for the beach?     Anyone still have vacation left? If so where you going? I would love to hear from you!     I hope y'all had a great Monday!                                           

Baby Bird Landlords

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone is have a great week so far.

Mine is pretty busy with work stuff but I can not complain! I am so very happy to be blessed with a good job When I know many people are struggling.

Tonight after work my bluebird team for Wildlife Sustainability is going to replace about 6 nest boxes. The boxes are for bluebirds to nest and hatch babies in. This year on our work campus we fledged about 70 babies!!! YEAH! We have 6 boxes that are in horrible disrepair and we will be trying to replace them today so I should have pics for you tomorrow. We will be fighting rusty screws I think - HA!

Also, tomorrow begins my next beach vacation so I will be sure to post pics daily from there too!!!

I hope you all have a great week!!!

Please Don't Allow Me to be the Only One At My party

Hi guys! How are all of you this week? I am pretty good! Life is okay and I am feeling back on track.

I have jumped right back into the dating scene on Plenty of Fish (POF) and Tinder but that's a whole other post! LOL

I have gone on a few dates and also have had to say goodbye to a few guys...I am kind of realizing that maybe there is no one out there for me and I think I am okay with that too. :-)

The best thing recently is that I am back on track with my weight loss. I have had so many re-starts lately but this is it! I am feeling really strong and ready to do this thing once and for all!

I have got to lose about 60 pounds to get to my goal weight at this point. But I will re-evaluate when I get close to see if I need to lost less or more. I am simply going for healthy and also for a weight that I feel good about myself at. So, let's tackle the weight thing first and THEN see which knight in shining armor comes into my life.

Sound good?

Want to join me?

Pleasssssse say yes?! Just add the link picture above to your blog post and link up below!

I am going to stay accountable by starting a Weigh in Wednesday!! I am so excited! I have never hosted a Weekly check in and I am TRULY excited!!!  I am also a little scared. I am worried that I will start a linkey and be the only one on it (Hense the Post Title)...but that's okay too! I hope you will join me!!

So, here I go!!!

I started on July 24, 2016 and have lost 8.6 pounds since then.

From last Wednesday to this Wednesday I have lost 3.6 pounds

I have been watching. measuring and recording everything I eat and making sure to get at least 10,000 steps a day and drink my water!

Please, wont you join me and this check in to stay accountable!? I need your help!!!

Thanks - here's to health!!! Happy rest of your week!